Table 2. Phonological processes of onset clusters in the Buckeye Corpus. The column head orth represents the orthographic forms, while pron stands for the pronounced phonetic symbols of English consonants. n is the number of occurrences, and ∅ represents deletion.

Orth Pron n Orth Pron n Orth Pron n
bl bl 597 hhy hhy 51 sw sw 86
Ø 151 ly ly 70 thr thr 543
l 104 y 50 th 53
b 103 my my 154 tr tr 476
br br 470 ny ny 218 chr 425
by by 68 pl pl 758 r 131
dr dr 382 pr pr 1,535 tw tw 294
jhr 102 p 175 vr vr 570
dy jh 77 py py 152 r 126
fl fl 217 sf sf 57 v 60
fr fr 987 sk sk 1,022 vy vy 59
f 191 sl sl 236 skr skr 73
fy fy 113 sm sm 196 spl spl 57
gl gl 76 sp sp 847 str str 234
gr gr 979 st st 2,873 schr 92
kl kl 760 s 133 r 91
kr kr 513 ch 67
kw kw 321
ky ky 146